18 elephants killed in lightning strikes in Assam, India

Villagers offer prayers to a dead wild elephant, suspected to have been killed by lightning, on a hillside in Nagaon district of Assam state on May 14, 2021. According to the forest official, eighteen elephants died in lightning strikes at a forest in the Nagaon district of Assam. The incident happened on Wednesday night at a hill in the Kundoli proposed reserve forest in the Kathiatoli range